An Englishman of forty years residence in Wales pontificates about politics (slightly off-message), sport, the environment and industrial history.

Thursday, 6 December 2012

Anyone would think they did it deliberately

Local authorities, already hard pressed to achieve responsibility for housing benefit in April 2013, are handicapped by the mess that the Labour Welsh government has made of approving the necessary regulations. The BBC story is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-20599623

Peter Black has commented that the Welsh Government had treated the public and the Welsh Assembly with contempt, adding: "We are meant to be a legislature not the Carl Sargeant fan club."